Dear friend,
Hi !
I beleive you will be in pink of health & in good mood.
I have recently installed the Red Hat LINUX 5.0 on my PC(Pentium/100-Mhz, 32-MB
Ram,1.2-GB HDD,DCS Sound Card, JVC-3,600 bps external Modem, SVGA Moniter, mouse etc.).
After reading the HTML document instructions in the CD-Mannual, in several attempts,
any how I colud install it and got to the root prompt. Aslo, I ran X-window program by
typing "startx" at command prompt.
My experience with the "Linux" was really 'Awfull' and painfull, it has given me too
much trouble. May be this is due to my lack of "Linux-awareness"/Unix-awareness.
I have not seen such a poor & scaled-down graphics in my life, I don't know why the
world is overwhelming with it, while it seems me much inferior as compared MS-Windows.
Its very complex rather difficult to configure devices on it, and connectivity to
internet is only for me, there is no softwae on it to install. whare to get it.
Please can any body tell me the following very basic things in a simple way:-
1. How to access floppy drives in linux ?
2. How to copy Win98 files to floppies like Win98 ?
3. How to read from CD-ROM drives ?
4. Is it possible to read DOS/Other files from Linux ?
5. How stablish Modem connectivity, simple way ?
6. Does it provide TCP/IP & PPP connectivity ?
7. Where to get the Int-Browser on Linux, if its fre ?
8. Soundcard not detected in Linux, its PnP in Win98 ?
Well, I a am loosing hope of using Linux, if it is a such a great "Headeache". Is
there any simplest Graphical-User-Interface in Linux awailable like Win98 or OS/2,
where configuriong & using devices is a fun.
Please respond my basic questions,
I will be thankfull to you & may obliged.
Suncerely Yours Linux Friend,
(Syed Mohammad Riyaz)
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Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From:Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:15:21 -0700
Subject:Re: Sound Card
fred smith wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:16:52AM -0500, Statux wrote:
> > I use the Sound Blaster 16 (it's 50 bucks here in the US, but you might be
> > able to get it for less) :)
>
> There are *many* cards all called SB16, all similar, all different.
>
> > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone recommend a good sound card? I am thinking about one of the
> > > Creatve Labs cards, but I'm not sure yet. I bought a Create Labs Ensoniq
> > > AudioPCI card thinking it would work, but found that it made my system
> > > hang before linux even started to boot. So now I am looking for a higher
> > > end card.
>
> My Ensoniq AudioPCI card works fine, RH's sndconfig detected it as a
> es1371 and all the proper modules load up with no trouble at all.
>
> Fred
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For what it's worth.
I had lots of troubles with sound on Linux so you would think I knew
something by now - but I'm still guessing and every install seems a bit
different. Anyway, one thing I have learned (the very hard way) is that
if a sound card doesn't work properly (even on Windooze) one reason
might be conflicts involving the interrupts and buffer addresses. For
example, I had a Linux machine with 2 Network cards. I could not get
the sound to work until one of the Network cards was physically
removed. There are Linux commands which generate stats but it appeared
based on the stats (interrups and addresses) that there was no
conflict. But using a process of elimination we eventually concluded
that there was some kind of interrupt collision occuring and caused by
the second network card. I think I was on the 3rd sound card by the
time we had discovered that there was probably nothing wrong with any of
the sound cards that I had tried. So, for what it's worth - do keep
this in mind, specially if no one else has any significant problem with
the same sound card. I'm willing to bet there is an interrupt and/or
address conflict caused by how the system is automatically resolving
resources.
Hope that helps - at least a little bit.
Bye-thanks_TED
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